How discerning are you?

 

What does discernment mean? According to the Oxford dictionary – it means the ability to judge well.

Do you stop to question something that someone says, or a fact that someone has heard on the radio or newspaper and tells you about it and you blindly believe it?  It’s easy to get caught up in a conversation where someone has quoted something that they have heard but actually does not know whether this fact is true or not.

We may get embroiled in putting someone down, surmising about the facts that we don’t really fully understand or know what stand point the person is coming from and then automatically we make assumptions and judgements about the person or situation.

When we only know part of a story these can be called half truths. Half truths are very dangerous because people can distort the truth in order to get others to believe them.

It is up to you whether you believe this is wholesome behaviour or not or indeed you do this. But it’s with awareness and being discerning; finding out the facts first before we speak about something or someone and then we know that what we say is 1) true, 2)is loving and 3) is necessary. The energy we project through our words and actions will not intentionally harm another soul.

Extra reading: https://www.globalpranichealing.com/arhatic-yoga/